Tehrangeles
Tehrangeles is a portmanteau deriving from the combination of Tehran, the capital of Iran, and Los Angeles. A Persian community developed in Westwood, Los Angeles, after the Islamic Revolution of 1979 prompted thousands of Iranians to flee to the United States.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Neighborhood with 50,000 residents
- Description: neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, United States
- Also known as: “Irangeles”, “Little Persia”, and “Tehrangeles, Los Angeles”
Photo: Arspickles17, Public domain.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park and Mortuary and Nimoy Theater.
Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park and Mortuary
Cemetery
Photo: Oleg Alexandrov, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park and Mortuary is a cemetery and mortuary located in the Westwood area of Los Angeles. It includes a crematory for cremation services.
Nimoy Theater
Theater building
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The Nimoy Theater, formerly known as Crest, Majestic Crest and Bigfoot Crest Theatre, is a movie theatre located in the Westwood neighborhood of Los Angeles, California.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Westwood Village and Westwood, Los Angeles.
Westwood, Los Angeles
Suburb
Westwood is a commercial and residential neighborhood in the northern central portion of the Westside region of the city of Los Angeles, California. It is the home of the University of California, Los Angeles.
West Los Angeles
Photo: Alton, CC BY-SA 3.0.
West Los Angeles is an area of the city of Los Angeles within the larger area of the West Side of Los Angeles County. The area includes the neighborhoods of Bel-Air, Brentwood, Century City, Cheviot Hills, Mar Vista, Palms, Sawtelle, West LA, and Westwood.
Tehrangeles
- Categories: district or neighborhood of Los Angeles and locality
- Location: Los Angeles, Southern California, California, United States, North America
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Latitude
34.05529° or 34° 3′ 19″ northLongitude
-118.44179° or 118° 26′ 31″ westPopulation
50,000Open location code
85633H45+47OpenStreetMap ID
node 9980659421OpenStreetMap feature
place=neighbourhoodWikidata ID
Q1482230
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From French to Tajik—“Tehrangeles” goes by many names.
- French: “Little Persia”
- French: “Tehrangeles”
- German: “Little Persia”
- German: “Persian Square”
- German: “Tehrangeles”
- Indonesian: “Tehrangeles”
- Italian: “Little Persia”
- Persian: “تهرانجلس”
- Persian: “وست وود”
- Russian: “Тегеранджелес”
- Spanish: “Tehrangeles”
- Tajik: “Tehronçeles”
- Tajik: “Теҳронҷелес”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Veterans Administration and Sawtelle Japantown.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Persian Square and Talasazan Gallery.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Tehrangeles”. Photo: Zereshk, CC BY-SA 3.0.